On the spiritual path, I am constantly clarifying, not with my intellect, but through an inner sense, where I am: on the battlefield facing danger where my life is hanging by a thread or am I free to drift through life, waste my time, and think: “It’s no big deal; I’m not the only one; everything will work itself out”?

But time and again, it all comes down to a single point: the importance of the goal. Only by increasing its significance can save ourselves from the obstacles that entangle us, and that bring us feelings of weariness. In reality, there is no fatigue; everything depends on necessity.

Ultimately, all our feelings are determined by the desire to receive. We are not speaking about physical matters, but spiritual ones. We know from our own experience that if the body, even a very tired one, felt that there was a worthwhile goal that justified the effort, it would immediately set itself to the task.

Therefore everything depends on how much we increase the importance of what we can attain in our own eyes. Our work consists solely of strengthening the importance of the goal. The awareness of its importance stands against every disturbance on the path, and nullifies them.

No obstacle can withstand the pressure of the importance of the goal. They simply disappear; we no longer feel them. Then we see that they stood in our way only in order to confuse us. We increase the importance of the goal, and things that once seemed significant—“Oh, this is not working, and that is not working out!”—vanish instantly.

This happens because all these disturbances are artificial, not real. They exist only as a counterweight to the importance of the goal. But as soon as I acquire an awareness of the importance of spirituality, the need for these disturbances disappears. They simply vanish and are cancelled.

This is the only thing we must work on: constantly increasing our awareness of the importance of the Creator, and the importance of attaining Him. In this lies the solution to every problem that arises on our path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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